Without the benefit of the feed in tariff, it seems that they would be totally uneconomic
What a surprise.
So where's the morality in making every electricity consumer pay to subsidise a pointless hobby indulged in by idiots?
With a 10-12 per cent rate of return, that's a lot better than the building society
Is it?
If I invest £10,000 in a BS then in 10 years time I will still have that £10,000 to withdraw and spend on something.
If I spend £10,000 on a useless solar PV system, what will it be worth in 10 years time, and how could I sell the system to get the money to spend on something?
and given the latest warnings on gas and electric prices going up again next winter, there's another reason to go the microgeneration route.
You don't think that it might be a good idea to install something which will generate real electricity, not the pretend stuff?
But, it's not a get rich quick scheme.
I'm hoping that it'll be a serves-you-right-for-being-a-callous-greedy-idiot-make-you-poor-quick scheme.
I'm hoping that the Spanish retroactive cuts and cancellations to FIT contracts will stick, and that they spread.
I'm hoping that the uncertainties of things like that will cause investment in companies involved in the useless small-scale solar PV market to dry up and for them to go out of business.
I've also got them on my own roof because I'm a believer.
I'm sure you are.
There are also people who believe that a cosmic Jewish Zombie can make them live forever if they symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him they accept him as their master, so he can remove an evil force from their soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree.
Being a believer is not a substitute for science.
There are reports after reports of not getting the output advertised
What a surprise.